Deirdre Burnett
Deirdre is based in London and uses both handbuilding and throwing to make her pots. She is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association.
Artists Statement:
"Plasticity of clay and ability to fossilize, holding both form and reactive surface in time, fascinates me. Growth, movement and energy in Nature the inspiration, not its images. The work is the statement. It should communicate, not needing justification in words.
Vessels or sculptural forms in stoneware or porcelain. Thrown, turned, altered or hand built. Small translucent porcelain to floor standing forms. Volcanic surfaces from oxide or material in the body. The glaze firing is mixed, raw and biscuit ware fired together. Guided by cones in the kiln,each firing is more a controlled accident than a thermo-coupled predictable end result".
Deirdre graduated from Camberwell School of Art & Design where she was heavily influenced by visiting lecturers Hans Coper & Lucie Rie.
Work in the gallery is principally wheel thrown, turned & altered stoneware with an oxidised firing at 1280-1300 centigrade.
Deirdre is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association and a member of Contemporary Applied Arts.
Solo Exhibitions:
2017 - Stour Gallery, Shipton on Stour, Warwickshire
2005 - Harlequin Gallery, London
1979 - Oxford Gallery, Oxford
1978 - Waikato Art Museum, New Zealand
1977 - Atmosphere, London
1975 - Peter Dingley Gallery, Stratford upon Avon
1975 - Gallery 359, Nottingham
1975 - Craftwork, Guidlford
1975 - Amalgam Gallery, London
Selected Exhibitions:
2020 - Hans Coper, Lucie Rie & Pupils, Oxford Ceramics Gallery, Oxford
2018 - Oxford ceramics Fair
2017 - Oxford ceramics Fair
2014 - Designing Modern Women, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2013 - Shaping Modernity, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008 - Harlequin Gallery, London
2006 - Joint Show with Ashraf Hanna, Alpha House, Sherborne, Dorset
2006 - Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London
2006 - Cal 2 St. Ives Ceramics, Cornwall
2004 - Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset
2003 - My Top Twenty, Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset
Royal Birmingham Society of Art, West Midlands
2002 - The Stour Gallery, Shipton on Stour, Warwickshire.
Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset
1999 - White Out, Hanover Gallery, London
1993 - The Northern Tradition, Museum Booijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1992 - Vier Elemente - Drei Lander, Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Main, Germany
1990 - Lucie Rie, Hans Coper & their pupils, Sainsbury Centre, & Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
1979 - Image and Idea, British Council touring exhibition
The Bowl, British Crafts Centre, London, organised by World Crafts Council
1977 - British Pottery '77, Graham Gallery, New York, USA
Deirdre Burnett, Dorothy Feibleman & Val Barry, Charlotte Hennig Gallery, Darmstadt, Germany
1976 - 17 British Potters, Carmel College, Wallingford
24 British Potters, Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, & Everson Museum of Art, USA
Ceramics, Barclaycraft, Brighton
Deirdre Burnett, Sheila Casson and Janice Tchalenko, CPA, London
Porselein van ses Engelese Keramisten, Princessehoff Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Ten Approaches to Porcelain, Amalgam, London
1975 - Recent Acquisitions Design Collections, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974 - Ceramic Boxes, Craft Potters Shop, London
1973 - The Craftsman's Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1972 - International Ceramics, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1971 - Deirdre Burnett and Tessa Fuchs, Crawford Street, London
Awards:
2005 Winner of the inaugural www.StudioPottery.co.uk Award for Excellence
Public Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Pennsylvania State University, Abington, USA
Auckland Museum, New Zealand
Bendigo Ceramic Collection, Bendigo, Australia
Waikato Art Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand
Perth Museum, Australia
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Musees Royaux d'art et d'histoire, Brussels, Belgium
Sainsbury Collection, Norwich
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Buckinghamshire County Museum
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
Princesshof Ceramic Museum, Leuwarden
, Holland
Cleveland Crafts Centre
City Museum & Art Gallery, Portsmouth
Aberystwyth University Ceramics Collection, Wales
Bankfield Museum, Halifax
York Museum Trust
